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TIL that despite Russia's major influential role in geopolitics, the country possesses an economy smaller than South Korea or Canada

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WkYad TIL that Enligsh is the universal “language of the skies”. All pilots must learn and speak English, regardless of their origin.
nWl9P TIL about Thomas Edison's filming and assistance in the electrocution, poisoning, and strangulation of Topsy the circus elephant on Coney Island.
69Myl TIL there's a small minority of ethnic Germans in Kyrgyzstan who were brought here forcibly during Stalin era, most have left but few don't want to leave
xGVg TIL that in the 1854 New York World’s Fair, Elisha Otis amazed a crowd when he ordered the only rope holding the platform on which he was standing cut. The rope was severed by an axeman, and the platform fell only a few inches before coming to a halt and the elevator industry was on its way.
oBajE TIL that in 1961 the cost per GFLOPS for computer performance was US$145.5 billion dollars adjusted to US 2013 inflation. As of 2017, the cost per GLOPS was US$0.03 cents. This enormous difference in cost comes out to be a %99.999999999979 decrease in cost per GLOPS over 56 years.